Check that an element exists before doing somthing

Vanecelli

Back again. Looking to check to see if an element has been output by a previous function before I do something in another function.

Example:

if (document.form1.Rank2==exist) {
for (var i=0;i<airforce.length;i++) {
document.form1.Rank.options[i] = new Option(airforce[i].name, airforce[i].value);
document.form1.Rank2.options[i] = new Option(airforce[i].name, airforce[i].value);
}
else {
for (var i=0;i<airforce.length;i++) {
document.form1.Rank.options[i] = new Option(airforce[i].name, airforce[i].value);
}
}
}

It's probably some simple boolean thing, but I can't find the answer

iam_clint

i am pretty sure you can just do
if (document.form1.Rank2) {
}

iam_clint

example

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<script>

function dosomething() {

if (checkobject("test")) {

  alert("This object exists");

  document.getElementById("test").value = "It Existed";

}

}

function checkobject(obj) {

if (document.getElementById(obj)) { return true; } else { return false; }

}

</script>

<input type="button" value="test" onclick="dosomething()">

<input type="text" id="test">

Here I just made a function to return true or false after it checks the object by id.

Vanecelli

Ok. It no worky for me.

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function checkobject(obj) {

if (document.getElementById(obj)) { return true; } else { return false; }

}
 
if (checkobject("Rank2")) {

for (var i=0;i<airforce.length;i++) {

document.form1.Rank.options[i] = new Option(airforce[i].name, airforce[i].value);

document.getElementById("Rank2").options[i] = new Option(airforce[i].name, airforce[i].value);

}

}

else {

for (var i=0;i<airforce.length;i++) {

document.form1.Rank.options[i] = new Option(airforce[i].name, airforce[i].value);

}

}

}

Says an object expected

iam_clint

did you put that function inside another function?

Vanecelli

Quote:

Originally Posted by iam_clint

did you put that function inside another function?

The "if" statment = yes.
The checkObj function itself = no.

iam_clint

give me link to the page again

And paste the line of code thats having problems

and you have 1 too many } brackets unless thats closing the function there

Vanecelli

Check out this first:
How the listboxes should work

This is the one with new code:
if (checkobject("Rank2")) added

If U enter a guest number you'll see the box I want to manipulate according to the checkbox. If it's check I want just a textbox, if it's unchecked go thru the Options Array and populate the second listbox that only gets output if the checkbox is unchecked. But, if it is not output first, because the guest number is 1 or 0, the populate function errors out on the first call.

iam_clint

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function guest(){

        if (checkobject("gstchk")) {

          var chk=document.getElementById("gstchk");

          if (chk.checked==true){

            alert(checkobject("Rank2box"));

           document.getElementById("Rank2box").value = document.getElementById("Rank").value;

    document.getElementById("fstname1").value=document.getElementById("fstname").value;

    document.getElementById("lstname1").value=document.getElementById("lstname").value;

   } else {

    document.getElementById("Rank2box").value="";

    document.getElementById("fstname1").value="";

    document.getElementById("lstname1").value="";

   }

        }

}